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Sunil Taldar
CloseChief executive officer
Sunil Taldar joined Airtel Africa in 2023 as director of transformation. After a transition period, in July 2024 he became chief executive officer and director on the Board. Sunil holds responsibility for leading and overseeing key strategic initiatives aimed at transforming Airtel Africa’s business and operations. He has more than 30 years’ business management experience in fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and telecoms, with a deep knowledge of general management, sales and distribution, consumer marketing, media and research and a proven track record in leading large teams across geographies in China, India, Indonesia and Singapore. Sunil is well equipped to deliver our strategic objectives and to lead the Group through the next stages of its development.
Sunil attends all Board meetings, Audit and Risk Committee meetings and chairs the Sustainability Committee. He is invited to attend the Remuneration and Nominations Committee meetings.
Kamal Dua
CloseChief financial officer
Kamal brings more than 20 years of leadership and financial experience across the telecoms, FMCG and manufacturing industries. He chairs our Finance Committee and is a Board member since July 2025. Kamal attends Audit and Risk Committee (ARC) and Sustainability Committee meetings. Kamal is also a Board member of Airtel Networks Ltd – Nigeria, Airtel Tanzania Plc and Airtel Networks Zambia Plc – all subsidiaries of the Group.
Before becoming chief financial officer in July 2025, Kamal was deputy chief financial officer since November 2023. He has also held financial roles at Bharti Airtel where he served as the Group financial controller. Prior to this, Kamal was chief financial officer for the mobile business overseeing finance and supply chain operations.
Kamal is a qualified chartered management accountant.
Ian Ferrao
CloseCEO, Airtel Money
Ian became chief executive officer of Airtel Money in 2022.
He leads the business across 14 OpCos – driving financial performance, strategic direction and execution with a strong focus on product development and customer experience.
Ian has spent the past 17 years leading telecoms companies in Africa, both as an entrepreneur and a corporate CEO. He joined Airtel Africa and the ExCo in 2019 to lead our East Africa operations in Kenya, Malawi, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.
Rogany Ramiah
CloseChief human resources officer
Rogany leads and develops our people’s strategy to support our overall strategic direction. Her main areas of focus are succession and talent planning, diversity and inclusion, change and performance management, and enhancing our overall employee experience. Rogany also sits on the Sustainability Committee.
Rogany has over 20 years’ experience in retail, media and onsulting to her role at Airtel Africa.
Dinesh Balsingh
CloseManaging director and CEO, Airtel Nigeria
Dinesh is responsible for operations and strategic delivery in our largest market in Africa, Nigeria.
He has over 24 years of experience in telecoms across Africa and India. Until 2024, he was managing director for Airtel Tanzania, where he supported significant business growth in a competitive market through strategic pricing, enhancing products, and disciplined execution.
Anwar Soussa
CloseRegional director, Francophone Africa
Anwar manages financial performance and profitable growth in our Francophone Africa operations. He works with MDs in each market to develop strategy and execution plans, helps develop local leadership teams and improves coordination between Group-level and local operating teams.
Anwar is a seasoned executive with over 26 years of international experience in telecoms and technology across Africa, Europe and North America. He has been managing director at Airtel Uganda and managing director at Airtel Chad.
Jacques Barkhuizen
CloseChief information officer
Jacques joined Airtel Africa in 2023. He directs the implementation of our information technology and digital strategy, IT governance and cybersecurity by understanding business needs, designing solutions and driving our platform strategy for business growth.
With diversified experience spanning more than 26 years across the retail, management consultancy, banking and telecoms sectors, Jacques brings a blend of operational excellence and innovation to Airtel Africa.
Martin Fréchette
CloseChief legal officer
Martin joined Airtel Africa in 2023. He advises on policy and legal strategies to ensure compliance with laws and regulations, manage risks and minimise litigious exposure for our operations and Board of directors.
An accomplished lawyer, Martin has nearly 27 years of international experience in telecoms and technology across Africa and Europe.
Oliver Fortuin
CloseCEO, Airtel Business (Africa)
Oliver leads on strategy, revenue, profitability and growth for Airtel Business, including FibreCo, enterprise and data centres.
Oliver has over 31 years of experience in technology and telecoms in EMEA, US and Asia.
Ramakrishna Lella
CloseChief supply chain officer
Ramakrishna oversees the procurement of our network equipment and IT. He manages our tower companies and bandwidth, sales and distribution, supply chain for marketing and HR services, and warehouse operations and logistics. He also leads on our cost-reduction initiatives.
Ramakrishna has spent more than 36 years in the telecoms industry, with more than 10 years of those years at Airtel Africa
Rohit Marwha
CloseChief marketing and sales officer
Rohit is responsible for revenue and customer growth for mobile and home broadband.
Rohit has 24 years’ experience in market operations. His journey at Airtel began when he joined Airtel India as a management trainee in 2001, where he became national head of marketing for market operations and then CEO of Airtel Maharashtra and Goa circle.
He joined Airtel Africa in 2022 as director of marketing and home broadband.
Daddy Mukadi
CloseChief regulatory officer
Daddy is responsible for our regulatory and government relations strategy in all 14 operations. This includes obtaining all necessary resources (licence, spectrum), ensuring full compliance and actively helping to shape the policy and regulatory landscape toward best practice.
With a master’s degree in communications law (telecoms, broadcasting, media and space and satellite law) and as author of several volumes of a handbook for media law practitioners, Daddy brings a broad understanding of legal and regulatory affairs to his role at Airtel Africa.
Stephen Nthenge
CloseChief internal auditor
Stephen is responsible for our internal audit department. This provides independent auditing and advice on our risk management, governance and control processes in line with the purpose, role and responsibilities in the Audit Charter. He also oversees the integrity and reliability of our financial and operational information, the safeguarding of the company’s assets, and our compliance with laws, regulations, policies and procedures.
Stephen has more than 26 years’ experience in audit, enterprise risk and information security management.
Razvan Ungureanu
CloseChief technology officer
Razvan leads on our technology strategy and the delivery of this to the network leadership in each of our 14 markets. He focuses on strategic network thinking, design, rollout and the quality of our ongoing technical operations.
Razvan has 30 years’ experience in telecoms and has worked in Romania, Belgium, Luxembourg and the Dominican Republic.